The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn faces considerable medical staffing shortages, with only two doctors and one physician serving over 1,000 inmates. Advocacy rallies have highlighted inadequate heating, food shortages, and insufficient medical care, raising urgent concerns for inmate welfare. Former inmate Anisah Sabur shared her harrowing experience regarding delayed medical diagnoses post-incarceration, emphasizing the dire health implications. An anonymous girlfriend of an inmate reported that medical treatment delays lead inmates to resort to extreme measures, such as pretending suicide to receive help. The Bureau of Prisons acknowledges these issues and has initiated an Urgent Action Team.
When I got out of prison, I was diagnosed with diabetes. For lack of exams, testing, treatment. I didn't know what I was suffering from, but I knew I was suffering.
{It's} very bad, if they have any medical concerns, it might take months to be treated. They sometimes pretend to commit suicide to get medical assistance.
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